内容简介：
In spite of a social services system that regulates and monitors how children are treated in the United States, the mistreatment of boys and girls continues. It is difficult and painful to consider the physical and emotional indignities they sometimes suffer. It is particularly heinous if this happens in an institution that purports to protect them. Imagine what children in such situations endured before the current regulations were in place. This story, set in the early 1900s and based on fact, tells of Sue Collier and her struggle to survive abuse and neglect after her mother sends her to an orphanage. The punitive treatment received there-at the hands of devout" women and men-marked her for life. Seeking closure in her declining years, she told her story to the author."